Commercial Finance Manager / Contracts Finance – Procurement

Posting date:	08 September 2025
Salary:	£50,036 to £54,772 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 September 2025
Location:	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	423641/4

Summary

We are excited to announce that we are currently seeking a qualified Senior Commercial Financial Business Partner to join our Commercial Finance team at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The Commercial Finance team is a small team with a big remit. Our team plays a crucial role operating across critical commercial projects and procurement activities, providing colleagues with financial guidance and support across the entire life cycle of commercial contracts.

As a team, we are responsible for providing financial support to major procurements, projects and post contract award activities, which can include Open Book analysis, supplier viability analysis, payment modelling, and financial Strategy development.

The Commercial Finance Business Partner (SEO) will primarily focus on supporting financial negotiating and assessing financial viability of major contractors, supporting the Health workstreams within the Commercial Finance team.

The Commercial Finance team is a small team with a wide reach, working currently across two critical DWP Commercial Categories – Health and Employment – to support our commercial colleagues on sourcing activity and to provide financial support during the in-life management of contracts.

Across the two teams we support over £4bn of public sector tenders. We support our customers designing payment methodology for new procurement activity, playing a key role in procurement dialogue and negotiations, and providing financial support when monitoring and assessing the financial health of our suppliers during procurement, implementation and live running to ensure we bring out the best value for money in our programmes.

We have an exciting opportunity for an SEO Commercial Finance Business Partner within the Commercial Directorate. The role will be to support -

Commercial finance engagement on major program procurements (ranging from hundreds of millions to billions in contractual value).Manage multiple relationships across DWP, in particular, with key senior stakeholders within Finance, Commercial and Policy communities to demonstrate a clear understanding of commercial finance strategic direction.Act as a trusted partner to commercial teams as they manage supplier on commercial agreements.

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